The blog posts below are taken from my grandmother's diaries. Althea Green Smith Crook was lovingly referred to as Nanny to her immediate family ~ thus her diaries are called Nanny's Diaries.

Nanny wrote in her diaries when she remembered to - mostly in the evening. There will be some years in which she didn't keep diaries and there will also be some days/weeks in her yearly diaries in which she skipped or forgot to write in them. For the most part, these are her words - written as she wrote them. There will be typos, forgotten punctuation, and other grammatical errors - but I am rewriting these as my Nanny originally wrote them.

As with all old handwriting, there are some entries that I can't quite make out - and these entries will be followed with a (?) to signify that this may or may not be correct or I can't figure out what she is trying to write.

Thank you Nanny for leaving us 50 years worth of memories! We miss you!

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

December 25 - 27, 1971 Christmas


Santa Came




Nanny's Grandkids - Jeff, Zak, Carmen and Kim




Clear, cold and windy. Up early. Got work done up and went down to Betty and Walt’s for the Christmas day. Fern, Lloyd were there and the Thomas family. Dorothea and Dave stayed there all night. First they opened up the gifts. What an awful lot of nice and useful gifts. The kids were also pleased and excited. This year Zak was all excited and very cute. At 12:30 we all sat down to a very bountiful meal of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, turnip, onions, shell beans, salad. Rolls, dark bread, celery, pickles, olives, custard pie, pecan pie, whipped cream cake, corn balls, nuts, grapes and candy. All was so good. Had a very nice day. Bill, Billie and I took tree out today. Had a sandwich at night. Deming’s called in PM.



Sunday, December 26, 1971

A nice mild sunny day. Didn’t do much. Billie went with Lawrence and Butch. Bill and I called at Fern and Lloyd’s. Walt and family over there also. No one here all day. Just sat around reading papers etc. Got supper. I washed, clothes dried good.



Monday, December 27, 1971

Up about 7 AM. Got breakfast, done regular work. In p.m. called on Fern and Lloyd and to see Delores. In evening Es called while Cliff and Billie went to a meeting. Betty and kids up too. Bill is very lame.


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